The hour-long project — based on Vicki Iovine’s book series and written by Marti Noxon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) — follows Abby (Edelstein), a self-help author navigating her life as a single woman in her 40s in Los Angeles.

Adelstein, who is about to recur on Scandal, will play Abby’s husband, from whom she’s secretly separated.

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• George Eads is coming back to CSI. The actor, who in August took a leave of absence from the CBS procedural after an on-set altercation with a writer, is scheduled to return for this season’s ninth episode, EW.com reports; the episode is slated to air on Nov. 20.

• Weeds alum Hunter Parrish will guest-star on The Good Wife‘s Nov. 10 episode, per The Hollywood Reporter. The actor will play an enthusiastic college student who is accused of murdering a female classmate he swears he’s never met.

• Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction) will guest-star on Season 2 of Hannibal as as a hippie-chic acupuncturist who’s been causing trouble, reports The Wrap.

• ABC will air the special Lady Gaga & The Muppets’ Holiday Spectacular on Thanksgiving night, Nov. 28, at 9:30/8:30c.

• BBC America has greenlit the original series Intruders, based on Michael Marshall Smith’s novel and penned by Glen Morgan (The X-Files). The thriller revolves around a secret society devoted to chasing immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others.